People in Lebanon are holding up banks to withdraw their own money amid the country's financial crisis
The woman managed to get $13,000 from her deposits, which she said totaled $20,000, per the AP. She said she needed the funds for her sister's cancer treatment and had gone to the bank repeatedly to withdraw her own money, only to be told she could only get $200 a month.
"I had begged the branch manager before for my money, and I told him my sister was dying, didn't have much time left," she said in the interview, per the AP."I reached a point where I had nothing else to lose."Shortly after the first incident, an armed man held up a Bankmed branch in Aley, a mountain city in southeast Lebanon,
reported, citing a depositors' advocacy group and a security source. The man got some of his savings out of his account.
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